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Community Legal Centres Queensland believes that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Human beings of all sexual orientations and gender identities are entitled to the full enjoyment of human rights (Article 1, Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity). To that end, Community Legal Centres Queensland believes that every person, irrespective of whether they identify as heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and/or intersex, is entitled to enjoy their inalienable human rights. Specifically, Community Legal Centres Queensland adopts the stance expressed in the Yogyakarta Principles: Principles on the application of international human rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity. Namely, ‘sexual orientation and gender identity are integral to every person’s dignity and humanity and must not be the basis for discrimination or abuse’: at 6.